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| ⭐️ Total score | 203 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Cixi is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 20°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (79%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 59 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 128 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.57 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 157 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,200,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,334 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $969 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,852 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $815 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $501 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $78 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $618 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $29 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (8 listings) | $889 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $29 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 468° cold | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 8429° warm | 9736° hot | 10641° scorching | 8630° warm | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 5412° cool |
| Real | 489° cold | 489° cold | 5714° cool | 6921° mild | 7524° warm | 7926° warm | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 8027° warm | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 5412° cool |
| Humidity | damp 74% | damp 76% | damp 72% | nice 73% | nice 62% | nice 83% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 80% | nice 74% | nice 68% | damp 71% |
| Rain | dry 35mm | rainy 54mm | dry 48mm | dry 41mm | dry 43mm | rainy 86mm | rainy 82mm | rainy 102mm | rainy 109mm | dry 41mm | dry 25mm | rainy 50mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 78% | overcast 94% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 72% | pockets 47% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 81% | pockets 25% | pockets 30% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 51% |
| Air quality | bad 197 US AQI | bad 203 US AQI | bad 164 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI | bad 130 US AQI | bad 131 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | bad 127 US AQI | bad 137 US AQI | bad 156 US AQI | bad 168 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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